Spotify Wrapped Adds AI Podcast

Spotify Wrapped, the streamer’s highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized summary detailing your favorite artists, songs, podcasts, and more, the company this year is introducing two new features, including most notably an AI-powered podcast of your 2024 Wrapped created with Google’s AI summarization tool, NotebookLM. Spotify is also rolling out a new data story called “Your Music Evolution,” which lets you see how your musical interests evolved over the past year. While Spotify previously built its Wrapped features in-house, the addition of a NotebookLM-powered podcast now sees Spotify working with an outside partner on a flagship Wrapped feature. Using Google’s Gemini AI, this year’s Wrapped will allow you to explore a personalized audio overview of your music listening in 2024, including things like your top songs, top artists, top genres, and more. The result is meant to feel like you’re listening to a podcast about your Wrapped.